SAP Integration Leader
Allen Park, MI - USA
Job Summary
The Integration Lead is responsible for leading the end-to-end integration of legacy (non-SAP) systems with SAP platforms across global manufacturing plants. This role combines technical integration leadership with project management and stakeholder coordination across skill teams and external suppliers. The Integration Lead will define and govern standard global integration templates and ensure stable secure and scalable interfaces that support MMP operations
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Integration Leadership (End-to-End)
- Lead delivery of integrations between MMP S/4HANA and legacy/non-SAP systems
- Collaborate with Functional Technical and Enterprise Architecture to develop integration architecture and approach for assigned programs including interface patterns data flows and performance requirements.
- Lead interface standards and best practices (API-led event-driven EDI IDoc RFC OData file-based) aligned to enterprise integration strategy.
MMP PDO / Skill Team Collaboration (Cross-Product Coordination)
- Partner with multiple MMP PDO teams to align integration scope priorities and delivery timelines across concurrent initiatives.
- Manage cross-team dependencies (design decisions shared services master data impacts environment constraints) and drive timely resolution through MMP governance forums.
- Coordinate end-to-end testing execution across PDO teams (SIT/E2E/UAT) ensuring integrated processes function across functional boundaries.
- Maintain and update the integrated cutover run-book/timeline ensuring accuracy of task owners dependencies and completion status.
- Coordinate go/no-go decision points with cutover leads providing integration health status and risk assessment.
Global Template Development (Manufacturing and Assembly Plants)
- Develop and maintain global integration templates and reusable assets for plant rollouts including:
- Standard interface designs and mappings
- cutover checklists and hypercare readiness criteria
- Drive standardization while enabling controlled localization based on plant-specific constraints.
Project Management & Delivery Execution
- Plan and manage integration workstreams across multiple projects/plant deployments: scope schedule dependencies RAID (risks actions issues decisions) and status reporting.
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery activities (SAP functional teams legacy app owners infrastructure cybersecurity data and operations).
- Manage integration milestones with skill teams: design sign-off build SIT Load end-to-end testing performance testing UAT cutover and hypercare.
- Ensure change control and release readiness are followed on areas impacting skill teams (CAB processes validation evidence rollback plans).
Supplier & Stakeholder Coordination
- Act as primary integration point-of-contact for internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
- Lead joint design sessions clarify requirements manage deliverables and ensure alignment on timelines and acceptance criteria.
- Govern supplier execution quality (technical design compliance testing rigor documentation defect resolution and handover).
- Ensure production support readiness
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or equivalent.
- 15 years of experience in enterprise integration delivery including SAP-to-non-SAP integrations.
- 10 years managing global teams.
- Demonstrated experience leading integration work streams in manufacturing supply chain or plant operations environments.
- GCP is preferred.
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